Fortran bootstrap failure

[Craig Burley]

>On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Craig Burley wrote:
>> If you could look at
>> /files/pfeifer/OBJ-1506-22:27/libraries/libf2c/libF77/Makefile
>> (maybe send it along), perhaps the problem would make itself clear. 
>
>Please find that Makefile attached to this message.

I can't read that.  I think I was once told what the name of the
pertinent tool was, but can't recall, and the gobbledygook includes
no clue as to the name.  Is there any reason you didn't just include
the contents of the file itself?

>> This area of egcs certainly has changed recently; it's even
>> possible that the CVS operations to install my latest patches
>> to this stuff were only partway completed [...]
>
>That apparently was not the reason. I did another `cvs update` now,
>more than 12 hour later, and the problem persists.
>
>As an additional data point, the very same failure not only happens on
>freebsd2.2.6 but does so on sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1 as well. (As a matter
>of fact, the Makefile I have included is from my latest attempt on that
>platform, which should be more common.)

Strange -- apparently other people have successfully built on
Pentium and Alpha (my case, though I'm not using the snapshot,
I am using what should be identical to it vis-a-vis libf2c) and
on sparc-solaris2.6 (based on a test report that just came in
on 19980615).

Have you tried starting from a completely fresh egcs-19980615.tar.gz
file?  Sometimes patched trees get out of phase, etc.

        tq vm, (burley)